[SGVLUG] Linux netbook for $150

[Christopher Smith]

I think you'll find the graphics card in that laptop is particularly ill
suited for playing video.

As for music on CD... when you play the music on a computer, the data is
already getting "ripped"... you're just not persisting it. Just get a
thumb drive (particularly if you allow for lossy compression, you can
fit far more music in a thumb drive than on a CD) and store the data
there. You'll save a ton on your laptop's battery life and reduce how
you need to carry around.

--Chris

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 15:58 -0700, Swantje wrote:
> I still have much of my music on CD.
> If I got a new laptop, I'd like to be able to use it to play DVDs as
> well, even if it meant using proprietary software (possibly even
> buying it, if it was inexpensive enough). 
> 
> Swantje
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Dan Borne <danborne.kde at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         I found the following question, derived from the woman's silly
>         response, interesting: how many of us here actually use cds
>         and dvds
>         with any frequency? Since we are not using any proprietary
>         software,
>         there does not seem to me to be any incentive short of maybe
>         reinstalling an operating system.
>         
>         Just curious.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         
>         Dan
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Small things done with great love will change the world."